To invest or divest? We help you make the strategic commercial decisions that help you grow and unlock value. And then we help you achieve it.

Merger & Acquisition Due Diligence

We help large and complex organisations develop organisation-wide improvement programs to drive a step change in performance, which makes us extremely capable of assessing the potential of a merger or acquisitions.

Our assessment frameworks allow us to quickly and accurately identify opportunities in costs across operations, corporate and sales. We can also assess on differentiated market capabilities and revenue growth opportunities.

Using a combination of benchmarking, hypothesis-driven analysis and our cross-functional experience, we can efficiently identify, triangulate and verify opportunity areas to inform your merger, acquisition or divestment decision.

We also understand the value created by combining an acquisition with existing assets. Our modelling tools and experience in merger implementation can assist identify and quantify potential synergies of a merger or acquisition.

The decision not to merge, acquire or divest is just as important. If our assessment of a potential transaction is that it’s the wrong move for your organisation, we’ll tell you that too.

Commercial Strategy: Commissioning, Procurement Alliances or Joint Ventures

We have helped some of Australia’s largest private and government organisations develop commercial strategies that help them determining their approach to commissioning, procurement alliances or joint ventures. We assist with negotiations and strategy implementation.

We undertake a structured assessment of strategic risks and market capabilities, assess your internal capability and current process efficiencies to recommend the most appropriate service delivery strategy for your organisation. We then determine the best way to transition to the new arrangement, ensuring you capture the most value from the process.

We have worked extensively with procurement leaders and teams in many organisations, as well as the leading service provider organisations in Australia. We know what makes a win-win partnership for all parties.

Transaction & Merger Integration

A successful integration can create shareholder value. A poorly identified or implemented merger can destroy it. A key part of a successful implementation is the engagement of the people within the business in the integration plan and also ensuring that the plan is realistic, vetted by the business and then resourced for success.

Third Horizon brings its full experience to bear, embedding themselves within your teams to engage and mentor teams in their roles, and to identify and resolve roadblocks to the successful integration.

We understand that no plan will ever survive the integration program without needing at least some refinement and reprioritisation of resources and we build our execution process around this with clear, transparent metrics and program management tools to regularly review progress and flag any issues that need to be resolved.

Strategic Sourcing: Procurement & Supply Chain

A key part of any business-wide cost review is to ensure that maximum value is achieved from strategic sourcing arrangements. We conduct strategic sourcing reviews to identify significant opportunities and help our clients manage the tender and negotiation processes to quickly capture these benefits.

Our tools and frameworks provide a robust process to ensure risks and options are carefully considered and structure tenders and sourcing agreements so as to maximise contestability and contract efficiency to ensure the best value can be achieved.

We help you unlock value from all spend categories, including major construction and capex projects, highly technical plant and equipment, specialist commodities and to corporate indirect costs.

When it comes to procuring complex services or working with integrated product and service supply chains, our solutions encompass the entire ecosystem of buyer behaviours, enabled with technology and robust ongoing commercial and operational models.

Our experienced strategic sourcing team can provide valuable market insights and sector-specific know-how to help you get the most from the strategic sourcing program.

Transition Management

Our collaborative approach, involving key stakeholders throughout a transformation program, combined with well-developed PMO and tracking tools leave your team with the ownership and capability to quickly take the reins of your program.

We transfer our knowledge and capability to your team from day one. Our approach to setting up implementation plans means by that by the time they are improved, ownership is already completely transferred to the internal stakeholders. This includes how the benefits will be created and agreement on where and when they will appear in the P&L.
Our PMO tracking tools, which we leave with you, are simple and robust. They will help your team to keep the program on track without becoming an administration burden that ultimately leads to their diminished use and then to the program beginning to slide off track.

Post-Implementation Reviews

We have an envied reputation for helping clients to achieve real, sustainable results. We maintain strong ties with past clients and often conduct post-project reviews to ensure that firstly the direction initiatives are taking remains aligned to the original intent and strategy and that initiatives are still on track
Our reviews include program implementation and benefits realisation status and health check; cultural and behavioural and capability assessments; and market and customer opinion surveys.